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Never had this problem. At first, I would have thought it was a weak/buggy power supply or flaky RAM. But I have seen Win2K work fine with DOS 6.22, Win 95 (all versions), Win98, Win98SE, NT 3.51, NT 4.0, RH Linux 6.2/7.0, and Mandrake 7.0. Do either of you have anything in common in regards to hardware? Do the 9x and Win2K machines communicate when they are both online? ------------------ Regards, clutch

IF you were just using the fdisk-ed partition for the boot loader on this installation, then you can save it. Check out this link (but you need an NT box to do it): http://www.ntfaq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=14716&SearchString=boot%20disk If you can't get to an NT box, maybe someone here has a floppy image writer (I have a reader that will read an image and write it to floppy, but I don't know how it works with NT boot disks) that could send you an image. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Looks like the boys at 3dfx might have some love still left in the V5500 to coax out. http://www.voodooextreme.com/#8356 ------------------ Regards, clutch

After re-reading your post, I think I have an idea. You seem to be on the right track as to your problem being routing related. Seems like you are spending a lot of time trying to find a host on the wrong network. Here are a couple of links that might shed some light on this issue (I use traditional routers myself, so I have not needed much work with this outside of the lab). http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/155/10/1.html http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=7036&pg=1 ------------------ Regards, clutch

OK, most of the slow browsing performance that I have heard of revolve around poor name resolution. Now, how many protocols do you have? And, are they in the same priority for all the machines in question? ------------------ Regards, clutch

NT behaves in the manner in which you speak of. If you try to connect to a resource that your logon credentials aren't enough for, in some cases you can use "logon as" to get what you need. The general idea behind the domain concept is to have as few accounts as possible, and to have the primary logon account be responsible for clearing the path to whatever resource you need. While it seems cumbersome now (and it sometimes is), try using it in an environment of 10 or more clients with a couple of servers, and you will begin to see the benefits. ------------------ Regards, clutch

I have never automated the shutdown process, but I have used two systems that could do it if used together (I think). You can setup an entry in the AT scheduler to use the Shutdown command. You can set it up to run on a repeated schedule and it's fairly flexible. I use it to purge a shared directory on the network at my office to control the junk that users leave behind when sharing files between departments. Both the shutdown.exe and a GUI for the AT scheduler are available with the NT Server Resource Kit (or some hunting around I would imagine). You can also setup the schedule at the command line (run AT /? for options), but I dig the spiffy GUI. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Not so much overwriting the bootloader, as making the proper ARC paths for you. They can become complicated for most and it's a lot easier just to install 9x first, then let NT/2K sort out the location of the OSes for the boot.ini menu options. As far as the primary partition, this is more of an "easy way out" situation. If you are hardcore, you can take 2 existing hard drives (with NT and 98 on each), install them with the NT drive as master and 98 as slave, then modify the ARC paths yourself. This could be tested by making a custom boot floppy for NT, and then playing with the ARC paths until they work right, then copying the modified boot.ini from the floppy over to the NT partition. But, like I said, just offering the "easy way out". ------------------ Regards, clutch

A friend of mine was doing it to learn how NT policies worked and some older functionality for some MCSE testing. In addition, he had some utils that worked really well but only in NT (like Sniffer Pro 2.5). But I can see why one would think it's an awful lot of effort for no reason. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Got WINS? ------------------ Regards, clutch

Cool, I just figured it would be nice to show the others that some competition may be coming back. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Yeah, what he said. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Yep, you can have a dual boot relationship. Ideally, they would be on seperate drives, but they work well on the same drive on different partitions too. As far as the Norton Util install, I can only ****ume* that the program scanned for OS installations, and may have confused the two. Personally, I don't care for anything made by Symantec. I have had too many problems with their stuff to want to bother with it anymore. Odd, you would think they have to be doing SOMETHING right since they are so big and still in business, but then again look at MS, Novell, Netscape... ------------------ Regards, clutch

Damn, I never read that post. That's an interesting view on troubleshooting... ------------------ Regards, clutch

Any info in your System and Application event logs? ------------------ Regards, clutch

DDR RAM kicks major @ss IF you are running hi-res/hi bit-depth applications where fill rate is more important. I am a firm believer in DDR RAM. I, like you, see that there is a future in it. But I also see its use in the present as well. Any benchmark that you will see in games favor the DDR RAM chipset as soon as you hit 1024x168 at whatever bit depth. It also scales well in scenes that have a sharp change in complexity requiring more fill rate. For example, Timedemo 1 where the player being followed stands behind another, shoots him in the back with a rail gun, then shoots into the crowd. Run that demo on a GeForce SDR, then the DDR, and will see a big change due to the dramatic demand change at that moment. I run my GeForce SDR at 800x600@16bit so I can maintain an *avg* of 100+ fps. When I go to 1024x768@32 bit, that particular scene makes the card crawl with that wonderful explosion of gore (no, not Gore, FL wouldn't be that lucky) and guts. Another reason why I dig DDR RAM is like what was stated earlier, the price is coming down, and the complex processors that are coming out really need all the Fill Rate support they can get from memory. All you have to do is overclock a GeForce once, and you will see what I mean. If you O/C the proc, there is almost no gain, but O/C the memory, and you can see tremendous gains. Obviously the proc has a lot more to give, and DDR RAM can give it. I *believe* that the V5 5500 has a 128-bit RAM interface, and with 2 procs running 32MB each, it would seem to be great. But evidentally the complexity of SLI (and cost to keep up with nVidia) is bearing great strain on 3Dfx. I would imagine that's why the 4-way superstud isn't showing up for consumers as the cost is just too high. The GeForce2 Ultra is only a suped up version of the GTS with higher clock speed (proc and mem) and runs amazingly fast. If the V5500 could scale that well with a change in memory speed (try to find faster SDRAM in that quantity/price point, HAH!), I would imagine that 3Dfx would have done so to fill the void until Rampage could show up. I wont say that you are wrong, but I will say that our opinions differ. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Jedi, are you sitting at a 60Hz monitor refresh rate at the time? It sounds like it. If it is just a D3D thing, then use DXDiag: Start>run>dxdiag Go to the "more help" tab, and then the override button. Now you can put in a refresh rate more suitable to the resolutions that you work with. Seeing as I only mess with 800x600 and 1024x768, I use 100Hz as that is what my monitor can handle at both resolutions. Make sure to put in a value that will work for all the resolutions you plan to use. Or just get the nvrefreshfix utility at www.tweakfiles.com and set your desired refresh rate for each resolution/bit depth combination. ------------------ Regards, clutch

There are some pretty good benchmarks for imbedded IDE RAID in this month's Maximum PC Magazine. In RAID 0 (striped, no parity), the imbedded controllers worked very well. This was done with 2 IBM 75GXP Hard Drives (UDMA/100). What controller is used on that motherboard? ------------------ Regards, clutch

Policies can be a lot of fun. If you have the registry locked down (which usually is by default), you would *normally* not be able to install apps under a normal user anyway. Hence the option that I gave you. On the network at the office, I don't setup "power users" (don't need people trying to install apps or setup shares), and I have policies for "normal" and "limited" user groups. I remove a lot of simple functionality from the "limited" group (hence the name) such as the "run" command and display properties. The limited group can't run regedit either. As far as key location, the software key (HKCU>Software) is where I found all the keys that differentiated functionality between users. If it takes more than 5 minutes to find these keys, don't bother with it anymore. Chances are the installation may be a bit more complicated and not worth this hack. ------------------ Regards, clutch

If you are dual booting 9x and NT/2K, then yes, you would want to install 9x on the primary active partition (normally "C"). Then, you can install NT/2K onto whatever other partition. This works because all the bootloader info (NTdetect, boot.ini, etc) sit on the primary partition, and the boot.ini points to either OS using ARC paths. Just make sure to use file systems compatible with the appropriate OS (with 2K, you have to have at LEAST seperate partitions for the OSs). ------------------ Regards, clutch

Does the SP kill any functionality with Palm Pilots? Any users out there still able to sync ok? ------------------ Regards, clutch

Well, it sounds like the game is hitting the registry under HKey_Current_User. While this is great for a lot of apps (all the MS office apps get to have completely different sets of preferences), it can be a pain in the *** when many people do work on the same machine. What I have done (being lazy and all), is export the reg keys in question, then import them back in under the new user. Bear in mind, that this is not the best method for some apps, as you may miss some keys that are created by the installation, yet not in the same key that you are exporting. I have done this for Kali (server settings) and Nero Burning Rom (keeps asking for reg code under every user). ------------------ Regards, clutch

That's what happens when you run at the top of a spec (6A on the 3.3v rail) that nobody thought you would touch. BTW, I figured you guys might appreciate this "review" of the top secret V5-6500: http://www.somethingawful.com/news/5-26-2000/v5-6500/index.htm ------------------ Regards, clutch

LOL ------------------ Regards, clutch

This is the utility I was talking about for the refresh rate: http://www.tweakfiles.com//video/nvidiarefreshratefix.html The link was posted to this BB a while ago, and this thing works quite well. ------------------ Regards, clutch